THE HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER SATURDAY DECEMBER 13 1952 On the Bat’s Back sucks suck I: In a cowslip bell 1 lie
... the view of Thomas Hardy who asked “ How could Victorian optimism worthy of dissenting grocer find a place Inside a man who so vast and feeler when on neutral ground?” “Smug Victorian optimism” indeed! Chesterton fairer when he likened Hardy to village ...